Douglas Bourgeois (born 1951) is an American sculptor and figurative painter. Bourgeois has been called one of the new "visionary imagists".

Life

Bourgeois was born in Gonzales, Louisiana and grew up in

St. Amant, Louisiana St. Amant (or Saint Amant) is an unincorporated community located in Ascension Parish, in the U.S. state of Louisiana. This community has not been incorporated into a city or town. It is situated about 25 miles south-east of Baton Rouge. and 50 ...

. He received a BFA from

Louisiana State University Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The university was founded in 1860 nea ...

in 1974.

Collections

Bourgeois' work is held in the following collections: * the

Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation is a non-profit arts foundation located on North Carolwood Drive in the Holmby Hills district of Los Angeles, California. Modern and contemporary artwork in the Frederick R. Weisman collection are displayed i ...

(Los Angeles), *

The Historic New Orleans Collection The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC) is a museum, research center, and publisher dedicated to the study and preservation of the history and culture of New Orleans and the Gulf South region of the United States. It is located in New Orleans ...

, * the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Morris Museum of Art (Augusta, GA), * the New Orleans Museum of Art, * the

Ogden Museum of Southern Art The Ogden Museum of Southern Art is located in the Warehouse Arts District of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. Established in 1999, and in Stephen Goldring Hall at 925 Camp Street since 2003. The building The Ogden consists of two main buildin ...

(New Orleans), * the

Smithsonian American Art Museum The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds o ...

(Washington, DC), and * the

Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) is a multimedia contemporary art gallery in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. SECCA has no permanent collection but offers exhibitions of works by artists with regional, national, and international ...

(Winston-Salem, NC).Arthur Roger Gallery

Bibliography

* Arthur Roger Gallery, ''Douglas Bourgeois'', New Orleans, Arthur Roger Gallery, 1994 * Bourgeois, Douglas,

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, Estill Curtis Pennington,

David S. Rubin David Stuart Rubin (born June 18, 1949) is an American curator, art critic, and artist. Early life and education Rubin was born in Los Angeles. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles ...

and

Jay Weigel Jay Weigel is a composer, producer, conductor, arranger, orchestrator, and contractor for film, television, recordings, and concerts. From 1998 to 2001, he worked as an orchestrator, assistant conductor, and head music preparatory for composer Te ...

, ''Baby-boom Daydreams, the Art of Douglas Bourgeois'', New York, Hudson Hills Press, 2003 * Delehanty, Randolph, ''Art in the American South, Works from the Ogden Collection'', Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1996, p. 225.

References

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